Wednesday women: Martin, Jeffers hit round numbers

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Jan 21, 2015

Becky Martin won her 500th career game, all of them at McDaniel (other than the ones when the school was still called Western Maryland), while Dixie Jeffers won her 652nd career game, 600 of them at Capital.

Lindsey Nichols tallied 19 points to lead McDaniel to a 53-38 win vs. Gettysburg, the 500th win in the coaching career of Becky Martin. 

Martin is the 26th Division III women's basketball coach to reach the milestone, at 500-332. McDaniel remained tied for first in the Centennial Conference at 14-1, 8-1.

Dixie Jeffers won her 600th career victory as a Capital Crusader on Wednesday night at the Capital Center behind a dominating 66-39 win over Muskingum. Jeffers, already the all-time winningest Capital coach and Ohio Athletic Conference women’s basketball coach, takes in win No. 600 in her 29th season at the helm of the Crusaders. She now has a grand total of 652 career victories.

Delaware Valley became only the second team all season to stay within 10 points of the defending champs as the Aggies battled before falling to No. 1 FDU-Florham 75-67. Shalette Brown had 16 points and 15 rebounds as the Devils won their 49th consecutive game. 

No. 23 Williams shot just 4-for-23 from the floor in the first half and was never able to overcome the bad start as No. 8 Amherst defeated the Ephs 65-51. Amherst swept the home-and-home for the first time in three seasons.

St. Norbert rallied from a 14-point deficit with just over six minutes remaining to pull out a pulsating 61-60 win at Carroll in a key Midwest Conference game at Van Male Fieldhouse. The Green Knights (13-2, 10-0 MWC) remained alone in first place in the MWC with the comeback. The Pioneers (11-4, 8-2) looked to be in full control when Malory Christenson's jumper with 6:11 remaining gave Carroll a 56-42 advantage. St. Norbert responded by going on a 10-0 run over the next two minutes to get back in the game.

Thanks in part to scorching outside shooting in the opening half, No. 22 North Central cruised to a 101-72 win over Carthage in a battle for the top of the CCIW. The Cardinals tied an NCAA Division III record with its 10th 100-point game this season, while the Cardinals' 16th win marks the highest win total since the 1987-88 season.

No. 17 Salisbury went on a 33-3 run, rolled out to a 46-14 lead and had 15 players get playing time in the first half of a 66-49 win vs. Wesley. Julia McLaughlin scored 12 and Anna Hackett added 11 in the first half alone.

Catholic had a one-point lead and the ball with 25 seconds remaining in its game at Juniata, but the Eagles got the steal and the win, 77-76. Kelsey Livoti scored the winning basket with three seconds left. The loss knocks the Cardinals one-and-a-half games behind No. 13 Scranton, which drubbed Moravian, 82-57.

Maddie Bosworth came off the bench to score 25 points, shooting 10-for-13 from the floor as Simpson knocked off No. 25 Luther, 88-81 in overtime. Macey Sheerer scored a layup as time expired to lift Bluffton over Manchester, 54-53.